{"id":609,"date":"2022-01-08T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=609"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:14:31","slug":"john-hancock-otis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/john-hancock-otis\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hancock Otis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As to democracy, fellow citizens,<br \/>\nAre you not prepared to admit<br \/>\nThat I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born,<br \/>\nWas second to none in Spoon River<br \/>\nIn my devotion to the cause of Liberty?<br \/>\nWhile my contemporary, <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/anthony-findlay\/\">Anthony Findlay<\/a>,<br \/>\nBorn in a shanty and beginning life<br \/>\nAs a water carrier to the section hands,<br \/>\nThen becoming a section hand when he was grown,<br \/>\nAfterwards foreman of the gang, until he rose<br \/>\nTo the superintendency of the railroad,<br \/>\nLiving in Chicago,<br \/>\nWas a veritable slave driver,<br \/>\nGrinding the faces of labor,<br \/>\nAnd a bitter enemy of democracy.<br \/>\nAnd I say to you, Spoon River,<br \/>\nAnd to you, O republic,<br \/>\nBeware of the man who rises to power<br \/>\nFrom one suspender.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/amelia-garrick\/\">Previous: Amelia Garrick<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/anthony-findlay\/\">Next: Anthony Findlay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born, Was second to none in Spoon River In my devotion to the cause of Liberty? While my contemporary, Anthony Findlay, Born in a shanty and beginning life As a water carrier to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[81,82],"class_list":["post-609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-anthony-findlay","tag-john-hancock-otis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/609\/revisions\/707"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}